While you could use your body to heal your mind, I believe that using your mind to heal your body is far more effective. First, to understand the healing power of our mind, it is important to remember that our thoughts and spoken words have a tremendous power that can either heal our physical body, or it can destroy it. Remember that you attract everything in your life through your thoughts. Basically, you can attract perfect health or a serious illness through your thoughts and corresponding feelings. The thought may not be so obvious such as: ”I am going to be sick.” Or “I will contract a terrible disease”. The thought usually is more subtle than that. For example, you may think: “My life is a mess.” Or “I am not worthy to live.” Or “I am a loser.” Or a very common one …“I am sick of my life.” When you think these kinds of thoughts, you place tremendous creative energy into motion and consequently, you will attract it –you will get sick. It is very hard to reverse the effects of your negative thoughts and feelings once they have taken physical form. It is not impossible but it is very difficult.
Now, in light of this understanding of the mind-body connection, the question is how to use your mind to heal your body? To answer this question, I will share with you one true event of my life that beautifully illustrates the healing power of the mind.
A few years ago I experienced a serious injury that severely affected my daily functioning. According to the medical opinions of the medical specialists, in ninety per cent of all cases with such injury, people experienced difficulties with the ordinary activities of daily living until the end of their life. The moment the injury happened, my career, my future plans and my entire life were placed on hold. My life became a real nightmare as I could not do anything myself. I was devastated and lost.
In those difficult moments, I became aware that my attitude toward my life was predominantly negative. Then I came to the following realisation: that I could choose either to continue to live the rest of my life as a person dependent on others or to take the courage to accept that challenging situation and make some positive changes in my life. In the following months after the injury, I made a conscious decision to use my thoughts and spoken words to heal my injury. Each day, several times throughout a day, I repeated mentally with a great devotion one of the following affirmations:
- I choose health and happiness in my life.
- I am grateful for the healing that is happening in my body.
- I love myself and I am perfectly healthy.
- I love my body, and therefore, I treat it with love and respect.
- I have a healthy and slender body.
- Every day I am healthier and stronger.
- I am completely healthy.
Eventually, I reaped the fruits of my inner mental work. My injury healed miraculously after six months, without any physical restrictions. The doctors familiar with my case could not explain scientifically the positive outcome of my injury, believing that I was simply ‘an exceptional case.’ What I strongly believe is that our physical body has a capacity to heal itself spontaneously, if we know how to use the willpower of our conscious mind.
To learn more about how to use your mind to heal your body, and achieve optimal health and happiness, read my latest self-help book “Another Way of Living: A Journey to Infinite Peace, Immense Joy and True Freedom” that you can get in a paperback format or as an e-book on our website.